Andrey Serbinenko schrieb:

in many cases you'll find that people
are being reluctant admitting their English abilities in an attempt to avoid
having to communicate with you in English and show their bad pronunciation and

I don't think this is the reason. My feeling always was that some people
just wanted to be left alone, using the language problem as an excuse,
which they can't if you speak their language, but maybe I was totally wrong.

Stefan